BOA Session
Chair: Vasudev Zaver
This session is aimed at consultants and trainees, plusall the culture and diversity champions and the EDI leads from the different orthopaedic sub-specialities. The session is aims to form 8 working groups who identify the top 3 EDI related priorities for the BOA for the next year and implement an action plan to address this. The working group will cover a breadth of topics, including return to work.
Agenda:
16:30 - 16:40 BOTA Culture & Diversity Update
16:40 - 17:10 BOTA and BOMSA allyship live demo, Q&A
17:10 - 18:00 Culture & Diversity open forum priority setting
Vasudev is an ST4 Registrar in the Mersey region and the incumbent BOTA Culture & Diversity Representative. He is passionate about advocating for surgical trainees and improving the working environment and, in turn, improving patient care. He is a strong believer in data driven solutions to instigate change and has been actively involved in strategy and management through ASiT and now BOTA, working with major stakeholders in UK surgical training.
Having grown up in a fraught, low-income, working-class minority household, he has firsthand experience of some of the struggles faced by those from a diverse background. He has worked extensively to promote a healthier and more inclusive workplace during his career to date, including helping to lead national EDI campaigns such as 50 Faces of Surgery. His publication entitled “The Covert COVID-19 Crisis” aimed to support and empower Doctors working in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery to identify and support victims of Domestic Abuse and Violence.
Clinically, Vasudev has a keen interest in trauma, lower limb arthroplasty, and robotic and digital technological solutions for healthcare. He has worked with industry partners for several years to deliver high quality educational initiatives for surgical trainees in the UK.
Salma is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospital Trust who specialises in Shoulder and Elbow trauma, sports injuries and shoulder replacements. She is triple fellowship trained from international recognised centres of shoulder excellence, having trained at Oxford, Cambridge and Reading, and spent a year during training at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. She was awarded the BESS Travelling Fellowship. Her Trauma and Orthopaedics higher surgical training was completed in Oxford, and she studied medicine at Cambridge University.
Salma is committed to producing the highest quality research to offer patients the best evidence-based, compassionate care. She was awarded a PhD in Orthopaedic Surgery from Oxford University, for her studies of rotator cuff failure and repair strategies to improve healing. To date she has been awarded £450,000 in research grants, including an ORUK early career research fellowship, and has published widely. She is the associate editor for Bone and Joint Journal 360, and was previously the social media editor for Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. She currently sits on the British Elbow and Shoulder Surgery Research Committee and was previously Executive Committee member for British Orthopaedic Research Society.
Teaching has always been important to Salma and she was the co-director of orthopaedic teaching for Oxford University undergraduate medical students for 4 years. She has taught widely on courses such as the Oxford University Orthopaedic MSC course, shoulder and elbow cadaveric courses in Cambridge and ORUK FRCS Revision courses. She has regularly lectured internationally and nationally, including teaching in China and Palestine.
She has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to improving training for all doctors as well as patient outcomes, reflected in her wide-ranging work on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives. Some of her key previous roles include:
